PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530

Manuscript: Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Mus. Hs 2° 2

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-F Mus. Fol. 2

DIAMM Source Key: 1139

Image repositories: Frankfurt UB

Basis for description: high-quality image

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Mus. Hs 2° 2

Provenance:

Based on the way the pages are prepared (which is basically similar to the Munich choirbooks and D-W A Aug. 2°) and the Central European layout with the B below the D and the T below the A, almost certainly from (Southern) Germany, but unclear where and for whom.

Bindings:

c. 1900, Frankfurt, Germany
paper over pasteboard
Decoration: marbled
gilt edges
Endpapers: front and back: 1 endpaper with pastedown

Parts